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Comment "Mishap?" (Score 4, Insightful) 39

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2FdocumentLi...

Chapter 11. Commercial Space Mishap Notification, Response, and Investigation Section 1. General

"3. Definitions.
a. Mishap. Mishap means a launch or reentry accident, launch or reentry incident, launch site accident, failure to complete a launch or reentry as planned, or an unplanned event or series of events resulting in a fatality or serious injury (as defined in Title 49 CFR 830.2), or resulting in greater than $25,000 worth of damage to a payload, a launch or reentry vehicle, a launch or reentry support facility or government property located on the launch or reentry site."

Who was killed? Who was seriously injured? Was there greater than $25K of misgendering or failure to use self-identified pronouns?

If they went off-course, that's called busting airspace. It's not a 'mishap'.

God, we live in a fucking Banana Republic now.

Submission + - SPAM: FBI Seeks Personal Information on Readers of 'USA Today' Florida Shooting Story

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Did you read this article on USA Today in the 35 minutes after 8:00 PM on February 2nd? If so, the FBI has subpoenaed the publisher for your IP address and phone number in an attempt to identify you.

While the subpoena simply states that the information “relates to a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI,” a little reading between the lines illuminates the most likely scenario.

The USA Today article was about the Fort Lauderdale, Florida shooting in which two FBI agents were killed and three were wounded (which TTAG covered here ). It would seem that the FBI believes the suspect(s) were monitoring the USA Today story during that specific 35-minute window, and they want a list of those readers as a way to help find the perpetrator(s).
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Submission + - Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Experiencing Major Outage (office.com)

Submitted by TorinEdge
TorinEdge writes: Microsoft appears to have botched an internal Office365 cloud services rollout today, with outages confirmed up and down the West Coast of North America. Confirmed roll backs were good early omens, but in the end did not appear to be successful. Outage now moving in to its third or fourth hour, 2 hours by confirmation from Microsoft's status page (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatus.office.com%2F) and official Twitter feed (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMSFT365Status). Symptoms may include: All 365-related services flaking out, borking, alternately approving logins and confirming they definitely do not exist.

Submission + - Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: In a famous Siberian experiment carried out the 1950s, scientists turned foxes into tame, doglike canines by breeding only the least aggressive ones generation after generation. The creatures developed stubby snouts, floppy ears, and even began to bark.

Now, it appears that some rural red foxes in the United Kingdom are doing this on their own. When the animals moved from the forest to city habitats, they began to evolve doglike traits, new research reveals, potentially setting themselves on the path to domestication.

Most significantly, the urban foxes, like those in the Russian experiment, had noticeably shorter and wider muzzles, and smaller brains, than their rural fellows. And males and females had very similar skull shapes. All of these changes are typical of what Charles Darwin labeled domestication syndrome.

Comment MIPS vs 'Normal' (Score 2) 79

by G-Man (#58442434) Attached to: Science and Bicycling Meet In a New Helmet Design

It should be noted that MIPS (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMulti-directional_Impact_Protection_System) was only introduced to bike helmets pretty recently. The vast majority of helmets out there - and the majority of helmets on sale today - don't have MIPS. It tends to only be in high-end helmets, or is an additional cost over the non-MIPS version of the same helmet.

Submission + - Obama officials unmasked hundreds of Americans in intelligence intercepts (thehill.com)

Submitted by mi
mi writes: When American spies capture our communications with foreigners, the identities of Americans on the other side of the conversation are generally protected — if not by bona-fide laws, then certainly by rules and regulations. A transcript of the conversation should have their name replaced with labels like "US person 1". The citizen involved can only be "unmasked" with a good reason. In 2011 Obama relaxed these rules, making it much simpler even for officials without any intelligence role to obtain the identities.

Predictably, certain top officials of the Obama Administration abused their access to get this information:

“The [House Intelligence] committee has learned that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama administration,” [Intelligence Chairman Devin] Nunes wrote. “Of those requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate.”

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